Monday, October 10, 2005

Your T-shirt probably isn't as clever as you think.

I read the following on the back of a T-shirt a preadolescent girl was wearing at the Greek Festival on Friday night:

I survived Family Fun Day at Patriots Park.

I understand the thinking behind a souvenir T-shirt for a roller coaster, for instance, that says something like "I survived the Photon Light Speed Moebius Plowhorse Express" or whatever, but...Family Fun Day? The only sense in which that T-shirt could be clever is one far too morbid for a young girl, which is the implication that significant numbers failed to survive Family Fun Day:

I survived Family Fun Day, unlike some unfortunate people I could mention but won't...